Protecting Profits & Letting Profits Run On Out Of The Money Nadex Binary Options

Protecting Profits & Letting Profits Run On Out Of The Money Nadex Binary Options

You may have heard the saying before “Limit your risk and let profits run.” It’s actually a great trading and money management mantra. However, in live trading you have to take it a step further as you don't want a winning trade turning into a losing trade. You want to protect your profits and still have room to let your profits run. There is a simple technique to do this. When you’ve covered your risk, (by making your risk in profit), you take off half of the contracts. This enables you to cover your risk during the trade and still leave the table with a profit. Ultimately, with Out of the Money (OTM) binary options, the challenge is not allowing a winning trade to turn into a losing trade while balancing the large profit potential.

It’s important to remember that the market likes to go where the orders are, but how can you know where the orders are? You can employ the use of the DOM, which stands for Depth of Market.

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When using the DOM, seek one with five to ten levels of depth. In looking at the image, it shows what the current market price is, and how many orders are in both the buy and sell markets. You can see that there were 52 orders at 1290.0 and 44 orders at 1291.3. This shows us that there is a nice order flow.

As the time went on with the trade, the market dropped and the take profit order was filled. There were still two contracts left.

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The Gold market continued to drop, but for example’s sake, let’s say you were distracted and didn’t get out with the wonderful profit shown in the image above. (On the radio show, it’s sometimes hard to focus on the live trade and everything else the host must do for the show!) But it’s okay, because you’ve already taken profit on three contracts. The trade enters into “The Dark Zone”, those last two minutes where market makers usually stop quoting, making it difficult to exit in the two minutes before expiration. You’ve removed your risk on this trade, by taking profit on three of the five contracts. Gold is all over the place and it looks like it will be a battle down to expiration! You think about the goals you use in money management:
1. Remove Risk
2. Make Some Profit
3. See how much profit you can make

You’ve met all three of these goals, and feel at ease as you go into the last 30 seconds of the trade. Had you not met these goals, you would be stuck in an ITM contract, just hoping for the market to come back down.

Market settles at 1290.2. Your trade was close, but it still settled OTM. Your final two contracts lost $19 on 2 contracts for a loss of $38. However, you took profit on 3 contracts making $19 each for a profit of $57. Resulting in an overall profit of $19.

$57 Profit on 3 profitable contracts
-38 on two losing contracts
$19 profit on a $95 investment for a 20% profit in less than an hour!

In addition, the other 2 contracts had the ability to make $162, for an additional 170% potential return.
By using the DOM, you were able to see where the orders were and watch the market follow. You were smart in your trade and followed the saying, “Limit your risk and let profits run.” That is a pretty good guide. By using this simple strategy, you did not have to let a winner become a loser. You still left open the door for the trade to make a very nice return, without keeping your risk exposed in the final minutes.

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